Shafaq News – Baghdad (Updated at 17:15)

Iraq’s parliament failed to hold its scheduled session on Wednesday, marking the third consecutive day this week that proceedings collapsed due to a lack of quorum.

The parliament’s media office confirmed the postponement, while a parliamentary source told Shafaq News that the session had been moved to next week.

Speaking to our agency, MP Salah al-Tamimi, head of the Iraqi Foundation (al-Asas) parliamentary bloc, blamed the repeated breakdowns on lawmakers prioritizing election campaigns over legislative duties. He urged accountability for absentee members and full attendance in upcoming sessions.

Monday’s meeting also broke down despite an agenda of 11 items, seven of them set for a vote, including draft laws on public services and financial regulations. The failure was followed by another disruption on Tuesday when 130 of the 329 lawmakers signed in, but only 50 entered the chamber, falling short of the quorum required to proceed.

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Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and his deputies, Mohsen al-Mandalawi and Shakhwan Abdullah, appealed to the members to attend, stressing that attendance was a “national duty.”

The leadership warned that repeated absences are delaying legislation affecting citizens’ daily needs and undermining parliamentary credibility.